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by Roy MacLeod (Author, Editor) "Between 1849 and 1854 Austen Henry Layard and Hormuzd Rassam recovered roughly 30,000 cuneiform tablets, and fragments thereof, at the Assyrian site of Nineveh in..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd (31 Dec 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1860644287
  • ISBN-13: 978-1860644283
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.3 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 660,618 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world and contained thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This text brings together scholars from many disciplines who bring it back to life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A book lover's book, 15 Mar 2007
By S. Bailey "will work for books" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World (Paperback)
The 'vanished' Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural achievements of the ancient world. Comprising many thousands of scrolls of Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian learning, it drew the greatest scholars of its time, and its loss has been lamented ever since. The nine essays in this book examine various aspects of the founding and functioning of the Library, and are fascinating for the general reader as much as for the scholar.

This said, the essays will be of varying interest to any reader. I am not especially bothered about the methods of transmission of Aristotle's scientific works, or whether medical doctors held especial prestige within the Library. I am, on the other hand, very interested in the Mesopotamian antecedents of the Alexandrian library, and in a sort of travellers' guide to Ancient Alexandria, as well as in the legacy left by the institution, and all of these are more than amply covered here. And who can resist the charms of the final piece in the book, where John O. Ward considers the legacy left by Alexandria to the greatest medieval library that never existed, the one in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which manages to be equally enlightening for both the fictional and the historical foundations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book which would have been better with some maps, 14 Feb 2009
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A wonderful book which gives a good insight into the ancient world but why oh why did the authors consider that a street plan of Alexandria was the only illustration required? I found the book unputdownable and it is well worth five stars I have give it although clear maps, showing the places where the various characters came from, would have made it even better; especially as none of my atlases show the whole area on one page.
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